This month's featured bomber is former light heavyweight and heavyweight champion Michael Spinks.
Spinks ranks among the greatest 175 pounders of all time and it is unfortunate that he is remembered more for his only loss-a one round demolition at the hands of Mike Tyson in a heavyweight unification bout.
Do not be fooled by Spinks as a heavyweight,where he used an awkward style to combat much bigger men,check out the 175 pounder,who might have been (along with Bob Foster) the biggest hitter in the division's history.
I was very pleased with Sergio Martinez's victory over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and even with his being knocked down in the 12th round,I was still pleased.
Martinez went for the knockout win and almost lost because of it,but Martinez attempted to be entertaining for the people that paid to see him even to his own detriment.
I had Martinez winning every round until the final round and won handily as only maybe one round might have been stretched to go Chavez's way.
There might have been a rematch early next year,but a post fight positive for marijuana for the loser might shove that further down the road.
I'd love to see Martinez against any one of Daniel Geale,Gennady Golovkin or Dmitri Pirog and word is that HBO is interested in a mini-tournament involving the four to unify the middleweight belts.
Good idea and one that I would like to see happen in 2013!
HBO brings two excellent fights tonight to the video dish with 122 pound Nonito Donaire against Japan's Toshiaki Nishoka.
Nishoka,a former champion that gave his belt up in order to fight Donaire brings a style to the ring that I think is going to give the touted Donaire fits.
Donaire gave up his IBF title before the weigh in as his next fight against the winner of a mandatory contender bout looks to have little promotional or television interest.
I like Nishoka to pull a huge upset tonight....
The other bout looks to be an all action war between junior welterweights Mike Alvarado and former lightweight champion Brandon Rios.
This one looks like a possible Arturo Gatti-Mickey Ward fight and if it is half that good-it is a must watch!
Showtime has a three world title fight card next week with Danny Garcia defending his WBA and WBC Jr,Welterweight titles against Erik Morales,who he won the WBC belt from before adding the WBA title with a KO win over Amir Khan.
Their first fight was a good one and I think this one should be as well.
As tired as I am of hearing about the "new" Paul Malignaggi (Zab Judah fits this category as well), I have to give credit to the New Yorker for traveling to Russia to win the WBA Welterweight strap.
Malignaggi defends against Pablo Cesar Cano while the IBF champion hard punching Randall Bailey defends against Devon Alexander in what should be an interesting bout.
Bailey can knock out anyone he hits,but can he hit the slick Alexander?
I referred to Malignaggi as the "new" version because yet again,he gets attention for being revitalized,renewed and energized in order to put him in a big fight that he will fall short in.
Point is this-Malignaggi is world class but not elite and will fall short every time that he is put in with elite fighters.
Zab Judah pops up every year or so with this stuff and the same thing occurs-and I think higher of Judah than I ever will of Malignaggi.....
Some interesting stuff in November coming up too,so stay tuned next time for more Overhand right action!
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